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Mr. William U. Parfet, also known as Bill, MBA served as the Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of MPI Research Inc. since May 1999. Mr. Parfet founded MPI Research in 1995. He served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Richard-Allan Medical Industries Inc., from October 1993 to January 1996. He served as an Executive of Reptron Electronics Inc. He is Other Professional at Apogent Technologies Inc. He served as the President of Board of Pharmacia ... & Upjohn Company, LLC from January 1991 to April 1992 and its Executive Vice President from January 1989 to January 1991. Mr. Parfet serves as the Chairman of Southwest Michigan First, Inc. He serves as the Chairman of Medicilon-MPI Preclinical Research Shanghai, LLC. Mr. Parfet has been a Director of inviCRO, LLC since September 2014 and Pharmacia Corporation since March 31, 2000. He has been an Independent Director of Taubman Centers Inc., since December 8, 2005. Mr. Parfet serves as a Director of Bissell Inc., Metabolic Solutions Development Company, Flint Ink Corporation, Old Kent Financial Corporation, and Universal Foods Inc., and MPI Research, Inc. He serves as a Director of Apogent Technologies Inc., Greenleaf Trust. Mr. Parfet serves as a Director of Nature Conservancy. He has been a Director of Stryker Corporation since 1993 and serves as its Lead Independent Director. Mr. Parfet has been a Director of Monsanto Company since June 2000. He serves as a Director of Business Leaders for Michigan. He serves as a Director of Financial Accounting Foundation Inc. and Southwest Michigan First, Inc. Mr. Parfet served as a Director of Parexel International Corporation from June 2001 to May 1, 2006. He serves as a Director of Reptron Electronics Inc. from April 2001 to December 2002. Mr. Parfet served as a Director of Pharmacia & Upjohn Company, LLC since 1985. He served as the Non-Executive Chairman of Stryker Corporation from February 2012 to July 22, 2014. He served as the Co-Chairman of MPI Research LLC from October 1995 to May 1999. He served as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Pharmacia & Upjohn Company, LLC from April 1992 to September 1993He served as a Director of Pharmacia & Upjohn Inc. since November 1995. Mr. Parfet served as a Director of The Nature Conservancy. He served as a Director of CMS Energy Corporation and its subsidiary, Consumers Energy Company from May 1991 to May 20, 2005. Mr. Parfet is the Commissioner of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources from 1996 to 2004. He served as the National Chairman of the Financial Executives Institute (FEI) since 1997. Mr. Parfet served as a Trustee of the Greenbury and Financial Accounting Foundation Inc. He served as a Member of the Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF). From 1990 to 1991, he was a preparer representative to the Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF). He served as a trustee of Financial Executives International (FEI) from 1992 to 2000. Mr. Parfet served as Trustee of the Michigan Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. He serves as a member of Advisory Board at the Taubman Medical Research (University of Michigan). He received his B.A. (Honors) in 1970 from Lake Forest College with a major in Economics and received his M.B.A. in International Finance from the University of Michigan in 1972.

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